Nintendo Revolution the next big flop?

[Emperor Pan I]

Few details are known about Nintendo's next-generation console, other than the codename and the fact Nintendo is aiming to push gameplay innovation over hardware performance. The specs on these pages include all currently known information.

The latest buzz on the upcoming Nintendo Revolution console is that its controller will skip the standard button-and-pad layout for an alternative interface, possibly a touchscreen (ala the DS, presumably). Then again, it could be that it’s motion activated. Or voice. Whatever the UI, the gang at Joystiq have some ideas on whether it’ll be worth the wait.

According to the unofficial reports, the new console will come equipped with a hard drive, use tilt sensitive controllers and will be broadband enabled. Games assumed to accompany the release of the new system will be titles from the Mario, Zelda and Super....
controllers have tilt-sensing gyroscopes, four controller ports on the system, twin processors and an internal hard drive, connectivity with the new version of the GameBoy, and games will come on HD-DVD discs.

Nintendo Europe MD David Gosen, the Revolution will not simply be a box that plugs into the back of your TV with controllers coming out of the front. This statement is absolutely fundamental. The Revolution will be something entirely new, a massive gamble and without question our most anticipated console at this time.

KEEP it mind nothing is official, Most above are RUMORS but i just have to say. Nintendo did poorly on the NGC, and I don't know if Nintendo could do anything big in returning to a market dominated by Xbox and PS2. Nintendo said that even if the DS failed, they would not be bankrupt. However WIthout the GBA and DS I think Nintendo would be long dead (Gameboy being the highest selling system of all out doing the Playstation and XBOX and the DS pushing 2.8 million sold in Japan and the USA and an expected 6 million by march with it's release in Europe) The PS3 and XBOX2 already in many peoples minds and many look foreward to the next wave of heavy hitting consols, will nintendo keep going with that small wearker system and try and rely on third party support that didn't work to well with the NGC.

Most likely it will be revealed at E3 this year, but I am unsure as to wether Nintendo will "change the way games are played" or simply make another flop(something Nintendo has become quite good at ie. Virtual boy)

~Edit~

January 29, 2005 - IGN has a round-up of the latest rumours surrounding the Nintendo Revolution, including one that suggests the next-generation console is known as the Nintendo 21

 

[Malcom Sex]

I think it will do better than the gamecube soley because the launch titles seem pretty cool, but the alleged controlers seem too complicated. Go back to the N64, the best system ever

 

[Biske]

Nintendo did best in the 16 bit age, they dominated then, and still in a way do, with their hand helds. So I'd say Nintendo shouldn't put too much into the main stream consoles, but stay with what it's good at; Handhelds.

 

[TroiK-]

KEEP it mind nothing is official, Most above are RUMORS but i just have to say. Nintendo did poorly on the NGC, and I don't know if Nintendo could do anything big in returning to a market dominated by Xbox and PS2. Nintendo said that even if the DS failed, they would not be bankrupt. However WIthout the GBA and DS I think Nintendo would be long dead (Gameboy being the highest selling system of all out doing the Playstation and XBOX and the DS pushing 2.8 million sold in Japan and the USA and an expected 6 million by march with it's release in Europe) The PS3 and XBOX2 already in many peoples minds and many look foreward to the next wave of heavy hitting consols, will nintendo keep going with that small wearker system and try and rely on third party support that didn't work to well with the NGC.

Most likely it will be revealed at E3 this year, but I am unsure as to wether Nintendo will "change the way games are played" or simply make another flop(something Nintendo has become quite good at ie. Virtual boy)

~Edit~

I have heard alot about this Revolution that it will be good. ya right.

Not, all the system graphics look the same PS2 Graphics look like Xbox graphic but GC kinds sucki anyways there not gonna look much different exept for the FMVs so dont even worry about it they just need to band to gether and make a RevolutionialPS3Box or something

 

[Biske]

Play-boX-alution, yeah, that's the shiznit right there.

 

[Andrew]

dont count the NGC out yet, it's not the greatest, but the new zelda will be so sweet.

 

[TroiK-]

pfft ya right, j/k i know it will be the goods but i only own an xbox sense i sold my other systems...

 

[coRtALoS]

That's the biggest problem with Nintendo. They expect a few hit titles to keep bringing them success with new sequels. They're fading out in our near future unless they find some way to revolutionize console gaming. I don't see that happening for them. :-/

 

[Sogeking]

as long as the stay with the cheap with hits plan, they should be fine. Add some feature nobody else has

 

[Malcom Sex]

what nintendo needs to do to stay in the race with xbox two and ps3 is revolutionize the online versus games. thats where the money is at right now, for example xbox. i have looked long and hard at xbox and their only standout game is halo 1/2. online gaming is the way of the future and nintendo must bring a change that would give it a competitive edge to gain back its prior dominance

 

[Biske]

Nintendo has some neat ideas, it's just, do people want those things? Maybe, Nintendo is way out ahead, and nobody wants that right now?

 

[Icedragon]

yeah nintendo needs to get online with their games its the only way they are going to contend

 

[Sprinkels]

Basically the reason Nintendo is still around (and I love it) is that it has the characters everyone grew up with. Zelda, Mario, Metroid, ect.